entire period. the largest grocers in the Houston market by the number of locations were Kroger, with 107 stores and 5 planned stores; H-E-B, with 90 stores and 8 planned stores; Walmart, with 78 stores and one planned store; Target, with 35 stores; Fiesta Mart, with 34 stores; Lewis Food Town, with 32 stores; Randalls Food Markets, with 30 stores; Aldi, with 21 stores; Sam's Club, with 20 stores; Sellers Bros., with 11 stores; Foodarama and Whole Foods Market, with 10 stores each; Costco Wholesale and Sprouts Farmers Market, with six stores each; and The Fresh Market and Trader Joe's, with four stores each. As of 2007, the largest grocers in the Houston market were Wal-Mart, Kroger, H-E-B, Safeway Inc. (as Randalls Food Markets), Grocers Supply Company (as Fiesta Mart), Target, Lewis Food Town, Gerlands Food Fair, Brookshire Brothers, and Sellers Bros. Media Houston is the tenth largest television market in the United States. While Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States, other cities that are smaller than Houston have metropolitan region that are larger than Houston's. See also List of companies in Houston References Further reading May, Meredith (Sharpless, Rebecca (advisor) ; Campbell, Jodi (committee member) ; Cantrell, Gregg (committee member) ; Krochmal, Max (committee member)). "Building a Business in the Bayou City: Houston and Women's Entrepreneurship, 1945-1977" (dissertation). ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2017.